What If?

 By Anna Von Reitz

It's late afternoon on a very short winter day in Alaska.  The last shreds of sunset touch the western windows. The kids are barely home from school. The animals seem content to curl up and stay inside, being more companionable than they are at other seasons. 

I've taken a long ramble through arcane history today and I am tired if not cross-eyed from staring at the faded, fancy handwriting of a diplomatic scribe writing in eighteenth-century French.  Translating it is tedious but do-able, and I have to pause and rest a moment. 

What if Lincoln had stood up in any public or quasi-public venue and said, "My cabinet members are planning to kill me and Generals Grant and Sherman are going along with it."

Just that much.  That succinct.  It would have probably saved his life. And our country.  

If he really wanted to overturn the tables, he might have added: 

"They are all working for the Queen.  They are not acting as Americans."  

Two sentences spoken at the right time in any public venue would have ended the Great Fraud as it got started, and caused a mucking out of Washington, DC, that would have lasted for many decades and convinced our British Territorial Subcontractors to tend their knitting and drink their tea. 

But, aside from cryptic remarks made to his wife and eldest Son and his Chief of Staff, Lincoln didn't speak.  Why not? 

The most obvious answer is threats to his family. If you go back and read the history, all of Lincoln's younger sons died of childhood diseases that were fairly common at the time -- but there is an unsettling lack of agreement in the newspaper reports. 

Some reports say it was Scarlet Fever, another says Meningitis, a third says Whooping Cough and a fourth says Consumption -- that is, Tuberculosis. 

Which is it?  Surely, doctors skilled enough to attend to the President and the President's family, could identify common diseases of the day ....unless the symptoms were atypical.  And they would be atypical, if the younger Lincolns were being poisoned. 

Trying to save his dwindling family could cause a man to stay silent. 

The characteristic sounds of the old hot water radiators kicking on makes me stop to consider: we are still heating buildings with hot water, no different than the Romans, two thousand years ago, but my roving mind-- like a hound on a scent-- wanders on. 

What if Lincoln didn't have enough evidence, and a nagging sense of fairness or fear of political fall out kept him quiet?  

It would be extremely awkward and look ungrateful to accuse General Grant, when Grant had just handed Lincoln the victory.  

Lincoln would have had to be sure and have hard evidence against Grant; otherwise, he'd create more chaos and risk the displeasure of the military.  Not a good thing, a week after Lee's Surrender. 

Later, Mary Todd Lincoln would accuse both Grant and William Henry Seward, but she was a "high strung woman" and "out of her mind with grief".  They gave her massive doses of Laudanum - an addictive opium tincture, as a sedative. 

Or maybe Mary Todd Lincoln was there, saw who pulled the trigger, and noted how conveniently Grant had excused himself and his wife from going with the Lincolns to Ford's Theater that night.  

Maybe Mary Todd Lincoln put two and two together and arrived at four.  

There are many odd, inexplicable similarities between the Lincoln Assassination and the Kennedy Assassination a hundred years later.  Instead of cryptic comments to family and a trusted aide, JFK stood up in public and spoke of a ruthless hidden adversary that he promised to expose --- but like Lincoln, names were never named. 

Why not? 

Like Lincoln, Kennedy had a family he loved, a wife and two little kids.  Perhaps he stopped short out of concern for them. 

For whatever reason, he stayed silent.  He never named names.

Let this be a lesson learned.  If you are going to take out bad people or bad agencies, don't talk about doing it.  Just do it, and don't miss your aim. 

Granna

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